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Grateful to be alive

An Abbotsford woman pinned under a truck in a crash this week is grateful to be alive.

Allie Dufour has been in Royal Columbian Hospital since Monday, when the pickup jumped the sidewalk, striking her as she was walking with her boyfriend

Dufour, 19, suffered a fractured elbow, leg injuries, internal bruising and broken blood vessels in both eyes.

“Even the parts that aren’t all bandaged up are in pain, like all the time,” Dufour told CTV. “Falling asleep hurts.”

But, she's grateful it wasn’t worse.

Her boyfriend, Cam Susheski, yelled for help, and several Good Samaritans frantically tried to lift the truck off her. Someone showed up with a jack, and they were finally able to free her.

“I remember being underneath something, and it was all black and hearing Cam screaming my name,” Dufour said.

She was airlifted to Royal Columbian.

“I’m just so thankful. If Cam had froze up or anything, then I probably wouldn’t be alive. I owe him everything,” Dufour said.

Police arrested the 30-year-old driver and believe he was impaired by drugs.

– with files from CTV Vancouver



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